Desiderius Erasmus Quotes
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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When we cover a Chainsmokers song in our live show with ZBB, people are dancing and going crazy.
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I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs.
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I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I like challenging parts, something I haven't done yet, something that scares me. There's just a feeling I get when I read a script that I love, I feel an attachment to it, a yearning to play that character.
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I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.
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Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
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My phone is always in front of me, 24/7.
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I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.
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As president, I would promote a Fair and Flat Tax plan, known as the 'EZ Tax.' My tax plan would be the largest tax cut in American history, reforming individual, business, and worker taxes.
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I don't know how much I believe in redemptive stories, even though people want them and strive for them.
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As far as innovation goes, I can tell you that Korean students are reluctant to step out of line. If I ask questions, nobody raises their hands - not because they don't know the answers, but because they don't want to step out of line.
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Everyone else is parsing it in terms of lowering the corporate income tax. Eliminate it. It's not that big of a generator of income, and it's a double tax. Get rid of it, and you would have an explosion of hiring.
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In those locations, where that type of support could be located -- and then a unilateral action would occur by Iraqis or the United States government -- that would seriously escalate our problems with the Syrian government.
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It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.
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The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile.
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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
